Alix Kates Shulman reflects on the history of Women’s Liberation and sees today’s #MeToo Movement as a direct descendent of the consciousness-raising efforts of the 1960s.
Emancipatory Spirituality
Peril and Promise
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In a time of global uncertainty, Rev. Dr. Alton B. Pollard III stresses the need for unshakeable spiritual leadership.
Jewish Wisdom
Seeking the Feminine Divine
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Shelly Fredman imagines the feminine face of God in order to challenge “the decidedly male bent of our tradition.”
Tikkun Daily
How dare modern psychologists challenge traditional views of masculinity!
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Ron Seigel argues that we need to reimagine masculinity so that we no longer celebrate “the the masculinity of meanness [but rather] the masculinity of meaning.”
Justice for All
Declaring My Gender Liberation
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Warren J. Blumenfeld travels a journey out of yet another closet: “My pronouns are Warren, Warren, and Warren in the first, second, and third person.”
Justice for All
Learning from the Teacher Walkouts
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Lois Weiner examines recent teacher walkouts and reminds us that, if they are to be successful, social movements must uproot all forms of oppression.
Justice for All
Pregnancy as Risk: When Access to Care Really Matters
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MaryAnne Mercer shares a riveting story about the tragic results when mothers-to-be do not have access to quality healthcare and reminds us of the importance to fight for universal care for all.
Race
Louis Farrakhan, Meir Kahane, and the Politics of Purity
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Shaul Magid addresses the corrosive, divisive nature of purity politics on the left and why a more nuanced approached is needed.
Politics & Society
Farrakhan & the Women’s March: An Unholy Connection
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Cat Zavis reflects on what healing and reconciliation can look like when anti-Semitism (or any other -ism) rears its ugly head.
Justice for All
Missing Shulamith and the Dialectic of #MeToo
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Martha Sonnenberg grapples with the present-day #MeToo movement and the 1970 version as articulated by Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex to help us envision a transformative movement.
Gender_&_Sexuality
Reflections on Theology from an Anglo-Jewish Feminist Perspective
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Goddess and God in the World: Conversations in Embodied Theology by Carol P Christ and Judith Plaskow.
Articles
Love Will Not Save You
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For years after, you will ask yourself, Should I have held her that night? Do you hold someone who tells you this? You won’t remember holding her…
Gender & Sexuality
Scholarship Against Desire
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First published in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities as part of the Part of the Legal Education Commons, and the Legal Writing and Research Commons. [1]
“Where is your heart in this work?”
I often pose this question to faculty candidates I’m interviewing after they share their scholarly agenda. A depressing proportion seems baffled by the question. One refreshingly honest candidate answered: “It’s not.” He had started his career writing about a topic he was passionate about, but had concluded that it hurt his marketability. So he switched, and his stock went up.
2015
The Genesis of Gender
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A closer look at the Book of Genesis reveals how deeply the gender binary is ingrained in our culture. What would it mean to smash this binary?
Activism
Safe Space? Hillel’s Policies Drive a Wedge Between Queerness and Judaism
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Hillel will never be the truly pluralistic community it claims to be until it makes a commitment to including all Jews, regardless of their political views on Israel/Palestine. Until then, it will continue to leave disproportionate numbers of queer students without a Jewish home on campus.